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August 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bhiamie Williamson, Research Associate & PhD Candidate, Australian National University The afternoon of August 11 was rather exciting in my community – the tiny, remote Aboriginal township of Goodooga in north-western NSW. After months of waiting, our COVID-19 vaccination clinic was planned for the next day. Then ... <a title="The COVID-19 crisis in western NSW Aboriginal communities is a nightmare realised" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/16/the-covid-19-crisis-in-western-nsw-aboriginal-communities-is-a-nightmare-realised-166093/" aria-label="Read more about The COVID-19 crisis in western NSW Aboriginal communities is a nightmare realised">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graeme Orr, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland Wikicommons/Shutterstock/The Conversation Are the Liberals liberal? Does the Labor Party stand chiefly for those who labour? Electoral politics is nothing if not about wrapping ideas – about values and power – in words. On Friday, the Morrison government ... <a title="Who’s Liberal? What’s Labor? New bill to give established parties control of their names is full of holes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/16/whos-liberal-whats-labor-new-bill-to-give-established-parties-control-of-their-names-is-full-of-holes-166088/" aria-label="Read more about Who’s Liberal? What’s Labor? New bill to give established parties control of their names is full of holes">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Rahmat Gul/AP Scenes of mayhem unfolded at Kabul airport overnight, as foreigners and Afghans try to flee Afghanistan following the seizure of the capital by the Taliban. As many, including myself, observed, this is Kabul’s “Saigon ... <a title="In Kabul’s ‘Saigon moment’, Australia faces the shame of repeating its mistakes exiting the Vietnam war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/16/in-kabuls-saigon-moment-australia-faces-the-shame-of-repeating-its-mistakes-exiting-the-vietnam-war-166163/" aria-label="Read more about In Kabul’s ‘Saigon moment’, Australia faces the shame of repeating its mistakes exiting the Vietnam war">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Maley, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University Sidiqullah Khan/AP In April 1961, just months after the young John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States, his reputation for expertise in foreign policy took a battering as a result of the Bay of ... <a title="How Joe Biden failed the people of Afghanistan — and tarnished US credibility around the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/16/how-joe-biden-failed-the-people-of-afghanistan-and-tarnished-us-credibility-around-the-world-166160/" aria-label="Read more about How Joe Biden failed the people of Afghanistan — and tarnished US credibility around the world">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Great crises are a stimulus to right-wing political mobilisation. Famously, the Great Depression of the 1930s gave the Nazis their chance. It was a good time for ... <a title="Right out there: how the pandemic has given rise to extreme views and fractured conservative politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/16/right-out-there-how-the-pandemic-has-given-rise-to-extreme-views-and-fractured-conservative-politics-165448/" aria-label="Read more about Right out there: how the pandemic has given rise to extreme views and fractured conservative politics">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ryan Keith, PhD Candidate, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Author provided Parents and researchers have long suspected city kids are disconnecting from nature due to technological distractions, indoor lifestyles and increased urban density. Limited access to nature during COVID-19 lockdowns has heightened such ... <a title="1 in 2 primary-aged kids have strong connections to nature, but this drops off in teenage years. Here’s how to reverse the trend" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/16/1-in-2-primary-aged-kids-have-strong-connections-to-nature-but-this-drops-off-in-teenage-years-heres-how-to-reverse-the-trend-165660/" aria-label="Read more about 1 in 2 primary-aged kids have strong connections to nature, but this drops off in teenage years. Here’s how to reverse the trend">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ksenia Sawczak, Head, Research and Development, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney Shutterstock Research at Australian universities has been scrutinised through the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) assessment exercise, Excellence in Research for Australia, since 2010. A companion Engagement and Impact Assessment exercise began in ... <a title="Where is the evidence for ERA? Time’s up for Australia’s research evaluation system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/16/where-is-the-evidence-for-era-times-up-for-australias-research-evaluation-system-165622/" aria-label="Read more about Where is the evidence for ERA? Time’s up for Australia’s research evaluation system">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Voice, Lecturer – Climate (Honorary), The University of Melbourne Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens. Flickr/Helen.2006, CC BY-NC In this series we pay tribute to the art we wish could visit — and hope to see once travel restrictions are lifted. Have you ever entered a ... <a title="If I could go anywhere: a world through the eyes of botanical artist Marianne North at Kew Gardens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/16/if-i-could-go-anywhere-a-world-through-the-eyes-of-botanical-artist-marianne-north-at-kew-gardens-165663/" aria-label="Read more about If I could go anywhere: a world through the eyes of botanical artist Marianne North at Kew Gardens">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra People aged 20-39, who were identified by the Doherty Institute modelling as super spreaders of COVID, will be targeted for the one million Pfizer doses the Morrison government has purchased from Poland. Of these, 530,000 doses will be sent urgently ... <a title="Pfizer from Poland directed to young super spreaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/15/pfizer-from-poland-directed-to-young-super-spreaders-166155/" aria-label="Read more about Pfizer from Poland directed to young super spreaders">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Hoadley, Associate Professor, University of Auckland The US ambassador to the USSR, George Kennan, chats with a reporter in 1952 after the Soviets told the US State Department that Kennan must be recalled immediately. Bettmann/contributor/Getty Images This piece is part of a new series in collaboration ... <a title="George Kennan urged American leadership and patience to counter the Soviets. Instead, the Cold War ensued" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/14/george-kennan-urged-american-leadership-and-patience-to-counter-the-soviets-instead-the-cold-war-ensued-156306/" aria-label="Read more about George Kennan urged American leadership and patience to counter the Soviets. Instead, the Cold War ensued">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Green, Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Author provided The Kimberley region is host to Australia’s oldest known rock paintings. But people were carving engravings into some of these rocks before they were creating paintings. Rock art sites on Balanggarra Country in the northeast Kimberley region ... <a title="Light and shade: how the natural ‘glazes’ on the walls of Kimberley rock shelters help reveal the world the artists lived in" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/14/light-and-shade-how-the-natural-glazes-on-the-walls-of-kimberley-rock-shelters-help-reveal-the-world-the-artists-lived-in-164952/" aria-label="Read more about Light and shade: how the natural ‘glazes’ on the walls of Kimberley rock shelters help reveal the world the artists lived in">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jarryd Pla, Senior Lecturer in Quantum Engineering, UNSW Serwan Asaad/UNSW, Author provided Vaccine and drug development, artificial intelligence, transport and logistics, climate science — these are all areas that stand to be transformed by the development of a full-scale quantum computer. And there has been explosive growth ... <a title="How a simple crystal could help pave the way to full-scale quantum computing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/14/how-a-simple-crystal-could-help-pave-the-way-to-full-scale-quantum-computing-165956/" aria-label="Read more about How a simple crystal could help pave the way to full-scale quantum computing">Read more</a>
